Set in 2030, a journalist tries to explain to his 17-year-old daughter how Britain has ended up being ruled by politicians reluctant to give up their self-anointed positions of power. The media is controlled, opponents disappear and private security firms carry out the brutal needs of the government while the majority of the population struggle to survive.

The year is 2142 and the world is divided economically, socially, and politically between the wealthy and technologically advanced Northern Confederation and the poor South. Earth’s resources are nearing depletion. Northern Confederation scientists have discovered a planet that could save the Confederation and its people from a new dark age. There’s only one problem: it’s already inhabited.

In the Zones, a troubled society walled off from the outside world, nineteen-year-old Dylan confronts the helplessness of his situation the only way he can—through his art. But with the eye of the warden upon him, and the hoods tightening their grip on the Zones, he must do the one thing no one else has dared to—unite the downtrodden residents and reawaken their hope.